It Is The True Nature Of Mankind

A Commonsense Interpretation Of The Facts Suggests That A Superintellect Has Monkeyed With Physics, As Well As With Chemistry And Biology, And That There Are No Blind Forces Worth Speaking About In Nature. The Numbers One Calculates From The Facts Seem To Me So Overwhelming As To Put This Conclusion Almost Beyond Question.

Some Super-calculating Intellect Must Have Designed The Properties Of The Carbon Atom, Otherwise The Chance Of My Finding Such An Atom Through The Blind Forces Of Nature Would Be Utterly Minuscule.

Not Far From The Meeting's Venue, At One Of The Famed Observatory Club Tea Meetings, Fred Once Started A Talk By Saying, 'oh, Ooh, Basically A Star Is A Pretty Simple Thing.' And From The Back Of The Room Was Heard The Voice Of R. O. Redman, Saying, 'well, Fred, You'd Look Pretty Simple Too, From Ten Parsecs!

Hoyle's Enduring Insights Into Stars, Nucleosynthesis, And The Large-scale Universe Rank Among The Greatest Achievements Of 20th-century Astrophysics. Moreover, His Theories Were Unfailingly Stimulating, Even When They Proved Transient.

Well, We Now Have Such A Photograph... Has Any New Idea Been Let Loose? It Certainly Has. You Will Have Noticed How Suddenly Everybody Has Become Seriously Concerned To Protect The Natural Environment... It Seems To Me More Than A Coincidence That This Awareness Should Have Happened At Exactly The Moment Man Took His First Step Into Space.